Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have to function as sitters for society, because society is going to thrash, and resist, and think it's dying, and be deluded, and regurgitate unconscious material, and so forth and so on. And the role then, I think, for psychedelic people is to try and spread calm.

Terence McKenna

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  Nancy Johnson
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• I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

  

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• I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.

  

  Irina Shayk
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• As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

  

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• In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.

  

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• Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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• When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi, and I went down there and was a waitress for a few days. Let me tell you, I got it out of my system.

  

  Lacey Chabert
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• For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Sense
  • Novel
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• Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
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• It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.

  

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• Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

  

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  • Art
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• All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Tombstone

• I often play characters on TV shows that are more sweet and naive and just kind of puppy-dog eyes, and I don't think I am like that as a person.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Eyes
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• I think, between the tattoos, the way I dress, the way I talk, people don't think it should go together with a franchise quarterback or someone that's leading the team or representing the organization.

  

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• The integrated automotive group of Volkswagen and Porsche is a certainty.

  

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• Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.

  

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• My first attempt at real music was when I was 13. My first signed band was when I was 21; that failed. I got another deal at 26; that failed, and then I was broke. I imagine trying to handle this head-trip of an experience when I was younger - it would have just turned into too much, probably.We all go through ups and downs with drinking, and In think it would have probably been a lot worse had I experienced that before.

  

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• I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.

  

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• I like to sing around the bonfire, in my car and in the shower.

  

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• So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have to function as sitters for society, because society is going to thrash, and resist, and think it's dying, and be deluded, and regurgitate unconscious material, and so forth and so on. And the role then, I think, for psychedelic people is to try and spread calm.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Trying
  • Dying
  • Calm